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Ellen Jolley learns how to run a maths outreach programme

The story of an unforgettable mathematician.

Reviewing the Royal Institution's first Black History Month event.

Biography of Katherine Johnson, NASA human computer and research mathematician

Why do surnames die out? We take a look at the Galton-Watson process for modelling the extinction of surnames to answer the question: 'When will we all be Smiths?'

Extending the million, billion, trillion system to much, much bigger numbers